Quartz is a partnership between St John’s Dumfries and Wordsmith Crafts CIC. Simon is supported a day a week to work flexibly to support Quartz activities, maintain this site and help people use the arts to experience, explore, and express spirituality through the arts, and for those that choose to, “to enter into our heritage […]
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Refined by Fire?
We often think of this as a burning away. Fire is more complicated though. Stare into the flames and you become memorised and day dream. Warmed by it we become inspired. Fire can destroy us, but it can also change us, and help us survive in places the are inhospitable to human being. This day […]
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Mountainhall
It sounds like an epic place to have an adventure, but how many people know about the plans to work with the greenspace around Mountainhall? Quartz is involved with the space around Mountainhall Treatment centre as a result of our decision to take working with creation seriously. It is a “green” space and a little […]
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QFC Sept 20th 2026
Welcome and Peace All are invited. Whether you consider yourself a close friend of Jesus, or are just a wee bit curious we meet in his name and share his peace. We meet in Peace and make peace through meeting. We collect our thoughts together God of our salvation,be with us when we call upon […]
The road goes ever on “Roads go ever ever on,Over rock and under tree,By caves where never sun has shone,By streams that never find the sea;. Bilbo Baggins, “The Hobbit” This is the pre-amble to Septembers Quartz Forest Church. It is not a Tolkien themed walk. Nor is it a church service. It is however […]
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Sept 26 QFC
September the 20th Quartz Forest Church This month we are going to try something different. Meet at midday at the midsteeple in Dumfries town centre if you fancy a walk through the woods with a picnic lunch. We will walk through the town to Mountainhall greenspace. we will stop for a picnic on the way […]
Stories help us with #SensingSpirituality This evening will use stories made into a game to help people think creatively and have fun exploring a fictionalised world. We hope that they will leave the time of gathering with insight into the real world, and fresh ideas and realisations. Curious? Come and see. View this post on […]
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People’s Emergency Briefing
You are invited to a screening of the People’s Emergency Briefing (on Climate Change) film. Perhaps you have heard of it already? If you haven’t been to screening yourself, this is your chance to watch it at Dumfries Baptist Church centre. Perhaps it will be an opportunity to meet like minded people and discus how […]
CLC is having a wee break from meeting to reflect on future plans and ideas. Perhaps we will try something new for advent? Take some time out to reflect and get in touch with your ideas. Contrary to the last news update, the St Michael statue on tour plans are on hold for the moment. […]
From Tatyana: Saturday 22nd August 🕐 10:00-12:00 📍The Standard, Dumfries High street 🤗Families and kids welcome! A group of children from Lyubotyn in Ukraine, (where one of The Depot’s partner organisations is based), have sent us their drawings of Scotland as they know and imagine it. 🏴 So we’ve organised an exhibition for them at […]
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Connections
Our world in connected beyond the wildest dreams of people in the early 19th Century. Knowledge of the ends of the earth, and a desire to connect with it is not a new thing though. This article describes one such journey make at the command of a king who ruled in London over a thousand […]